San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-05-02
MONDAY, MAY 2, 1887.
THAT DALLAS CONVENTION.

THAT DALLAS CONHEN IION'
The undemocratIc democracy of that
approaching anti prohibition oonven-
tlon is challenging attention. Perfectly
we'll aware that republican has no
right in Texas to express an opinion,
none the less is the LIGHT and its re-
publican readers somewhat anxious to
DEMOCRACY of this prohibition movement
dominates the undemOCratic democracy
OF the anti-pTohibitiOn movement.
The call for prohibition law in
this state was made by democratic
legislature, signed ny democratic gov
ernOr and given to the people as pure
ly undemOcratiG measure. The platform
OF the democratic party in this state is
cited to show that the democracy OF
Texas have no declarations to make on
the subject Of prohibition, and yet the
democratic legislature and executive
have committed the whole matter to
the people Of the state with the broad
seal of this democratic sanction upon 1t.
A vast body Of the democratic journals
of the state have taken up the advocacy
OF prohibition and are crOwding their
columns with passionate appeals for the
passing of the prOhibtOry clause in the
state constitution, and yet the measure
is not democratic. large prohibi-
ton convention is called. Its
workers are largely, almost
exclusively democratic, and the publish
ers of its accepted organs are rabid
democrats, yet 1t is not a democratic
measure. The democratic senators OF
the state, who a short time since antgg
Onized prohibition by pen and voice,
are either neutral or on the other side of
the fence, and yet there Is nothing demo-
cratic in the measure. Now, however,
an snti.prOhibitiOn convention is called
and it is Immediately heralded as a
democratic movement. The call is for an
anti-prObibitIon convention, irrespective
OF political party, and yet on the very
eve of the convention 1t is claimed by
daily journal Of the state as an accepted
and understood matter that this anti
prohibition movement is distinctly
democratic and that ii will be made the
occasion for laying down" distinctive
democratic, declarations with pre-
scribed qualifications for those who
acknowledge feslty to the democratic
party" The quotations are from the
Express, Of this city, which also says:
"The democratic convention at Dallas
will have to do only with ques-
tions of principle, not with the
personal interests of leaders of
clans, and the occasion will be u
fitting one to not only lay down anew
the democratic law on which the time
honored democratic party rests and APP
peals to the confidence of the people,
but also proclaim that hereafter those
who go behind or beyond that law shall
receive no recognition as democrats at
the hands of the party"
The chairman of the San Antonio
meeting to elect delegates to that con-
ventiOn wss republican. One of the
secretaries was republican. A very
respectable number of the delegates from
this city are well known republicans. 1t
is, OF course, none Of our business. All
the same, the republican readers OF the
LIGHT are DESTROYS of being informed,
whether they are to be used as mere cats
paws of the democracy in this matter, or
whether the Express has spoken, rs
usual, without authority for the party it
assumes to represent. If the democracy
OF Texas are merely using the repubi-
cans to balance their teeter. board on
the prohibition fence let that fact be
known and understood.